Metric Revolt
on 05/24/2006 at 03:05 AM
I absolutely despise the metric system. I lived in Australia for 2 years and I still could not think in meters, liters or anything else metric. I can picture 60 mph. I have a difficult time figuring 100 kph.
Funny story, though. When I was taking chemistry and physics in high school, all of the stuff was done in metrics. I didn’t like it any more then than now. So, I would do all of the calculations and provide the answer in such things as pounds, gallons, etc. It used to drive my teacher nuts to have to do all the calculations to see if I had the right answers. To his credit, he never marked me down for doing this. He hated metrics too, but since the books all used it, he had to teach it that way.
Metric, hell. I think that all road signs should display distances in Stadia or Furlongs. none of this wussy-pussy EUroweenie bull-doodoo for me.
This is the thanks they get for joining the Eupo peon union, now they can just meekly surrender and become just another balkanized province of Eurostan
i like metric, a lot easyer x 10 if you think about it, what i dont like is trying to convert from inperal to metric, its got nothing to do with europe, tiny if some one shows you a better way to go you go with it right? or are you a stick in the mud, “it must be right the whoever invented it says so”, you 2 eighth of an inch man you, as for the bannas this guy is a market trader for fuck sake, weigh your bannas when you get home peiper, i think you will find your a few KGs short,its an easy measuring system thats all,all of my drawrings are in metric, and i like it.
road works 100 yards, you would still have your foot on the brakes if it said, 10,000km, its just a sigh post warning you, when i can get ot of my car and measure it i would probley find he was one half inch out,or m/m as i like to say
or may be a few yards, give me a brake, i wonder if Nasa, when we done FSW on the boaster rockets sent the drawings in inches, i dont think so 
and these two guys holland n thompson aint done a days work in there lives, music n cooking, come on! a fucking egg is an egg if it weighs 2 oz or mg, holland just needs to get a life hes a fat fuck and weighs arrrrg, stone v KG, heavy fucker.
MY point, as much as i love
the Amricans we are still in Europe, theres some good stuff and bad stuff, i have freinds that have moved to spain and france, and i dont think they are that bad, my freinds that is,and i can use there measuring system, but the french n spanish will allways be Fucking Wankers, and i wouldent give them a 2.54 centimeter. 
When I took chemistry in high school and college everything was done in metric. I could tell you how many millilters/kilogram would give the desired explo...er… result. But back home when I’m cooking it’s still a cup of this, a pound of that, and a smidgeon of cream of tartar. Still not sure what a smidgeon is, but I bet the Tartars would be pissed off if they weren’t history.
I can still remember when our money was not “metric” good old pounds shillings and pence where one pound was 240 pence or 20 shillings. Personally at school I found metric easier to work with, but I still think in yards and gallons. As for changing road signs into kilometres well Neil Kinnock can poke that one up his arse. In the long run the Euro wet dream will collapse and we will still use miles and gallons and pints.
Ordinary people can order their stuff in ferkins, versts and bushels if they so desire. And no jobsworths can say otherwise. Really the metric martyrs were putting up a finger (or two) to the weights and measures men and it’s all really a storm in a teacup. All scales and measuring tapes have both systems on them nowadays, so it’s just a non-subject.
05/24/2006 at 03:48 PM
05/25/2006 at 10:36 AM
